Art Avant-Garde

Softcover. Booth-Clibborn Editions , 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Softcover, pages. A collection of essays, photographs and behind the scenes commentary from TRACE magazine. TRACE is a forward thinking global magazine that always leaves you craving more of what you just read/saw. Many of the early and current TRACE contributors are now some of the biggest more influential creative writers, designers and photographers in the world today. It is great to see all of these amazing artist in one collection and follow how they have evolved over the past ten years. As TRACE has matured so have they. This book is a great snap shot of fashion, music and art from around the world through the eyes of TRACE.

Hardcover. St. Petersburg, Palace Editions, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, pages. A book more about art than a book of art. Khardzhiev, though apparently not a painter himself, was an heroic figure in the world of Russian art. Despite official discouragement and prohibitions, he assembled an awesome personal collection of avant-garde Soviet art. He knew the artists personally, and gave them aid and comfort. there are samples of his writing (in English). There are 100 pages of large, high-quality reproductions of drawings and paintings in his collection with notes and bibliography. Most of the works are from the Khardzhiev-Chaga Foundation in Amsterdam,though a few are in private collections, and there are some which Khardzhiev was not allowed to take out of Russia, and were thus previously unknown in the West.

Softcover. NY, Damiani, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in publisher's shrink-wrap. Italian photographer Alex Fakso got his start at the age of 13, photographing his own works of graffiti on trains. Since then, Fakso has become a prominent personality in the underground world of street art. His latest project Fast or Die is a raw and honest portrayal of the often chaotic lives of subway graffiti artists from London to Tokyo.

Softcover. Damiani, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in publisher's shrink-wrap. Italian photographer Alex Fakso got his start at the age of 13, photographing his own works of graffiti on trains. Since then, Fakso has become a prominent personality in the underground world of street art. His latest project Fast or Die is a raw and honest portrayal of the often chaotic lives of subway graffiti artists from London to Tokyo.

Hardcover. Boston, MA, New York Graphic Society, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 335 pages. 134 black-and-white illustrations. Bibliography and index. Dust jacket slightly sun-faded. Examines Steiglitz's revolutionary role in the American avant-garde from the turn of the century to 1917. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Cambridge, Mass., The MIT Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 371 pages, b&w illustrations. Small remainder stamp on bottom edge. Light edge wear to dust jacket; tape-repaired cut on rear. Else a very clean, tight copy. Focuses on the multiple roles of Alfred Stieglitz-as influential gallery owner, photographer, and impresario of the emerging art scene--at a series of significant moments in his career.

Hardcover. New York , Museum of Modern Art , 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 167 pages, square 4to. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art. 68 full-page reproductions of works by Artaud, many in color, plus many other illustrations, including documentary photographs. Essays by the editor, Ronald Hayman, Marthe Robert, Agnes de la Beaumelle, and Sylvere Lotringer, with artistic responses by Nancy Spero, Patti Smith, and Kiki Smith, and a catalogue of the exhibition, chronology, exhibition history, and select bibliography. Gray boards with black cloth spine. Issued without jacket. Minor dust soil to edges of boards otherwise very good, clean.

Hardcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Folio(12 x 12.25 in.), 340 pages. Brown burlap covered boards with stamped pink-beige lettering on front and spine. Binding is strong. The original clear vinyl jacket cover is present. It has "fogged" with age but is still flexible and in one piece. This is a time capsule of the mid-sixties progressive art movement, showcasing a group of artists who went on to expand their profiles. A difficult book to describe except to say it is engaging and, occasionally, fascinating. The copyright page, title page, contents page and Kaprow essay are in the middle of the book, printed on tan pages. A significant pioneering work on performance and environmental art. Allan Kaprow explored his own concept of the artistic field of "happenings" while simultaneously examining various works from the same movement, bringing them together in this publication. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 134 pages, illustrated in color and translated by Jonathan Hammer. Illustrated by Jonathan Hammer. Introduced, edited, & annotated by Jeffrey T. Schnapp. In this unconventional book, Jonathan Hammer offers a new translation of Hugo Ball's visionary novella Tenderenda the Fantast, along with his own unique Tenderenda-inspired images.

Softcover. Millbank, Tate Gallery Publications, Reprint, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 134 pages. Softcover. Light marginal wear to edges. Profusely illustrated in black & white. Cover photograph of the artist's workshop in full color. Clean & unmarked.

Hardcover. US, British Library, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 176 pages, illustrated in color. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition. Breaking the Rules draws upon the British Library's unrivalled collection of artists' books, manifestos, little magazines, literary manuscripts, sound recordings, and posters from across Europe in order to explore the rapid exchange of ideas through printed matter that marked the avant-garde movement--and led to its presence in cities as diverse as London, Brussels, Munich, Zurich, Florence, Rome, Barcelona, Copenhagen, Warsaw, Prague, Tbilisi, Budapest, and Belgrade, among others.

Hardcover. New York, Aperture Foundation, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 128 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black and white photographs. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Small abrasion on rear end paper. Covering performance art since is nasence at the East Village's Pyramid Club, the WOW Cafe, 8BC, and other clubs in the early eighties McAdams became the in-house photo archivist at the infamous performance space, P.S. 122, the home of cutting-edge theater that eschews convention as it draws energy and inspiration from all media. At P.S. 122 and other alternative performance spaces such as The Kitchen and Dance Theater Workshop, McAdams developed her long-term relationships with many performers.

Hardcover. US, Prestel Publishing, 1st, 2012, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, This comprehensive monograph explores the conceptual complexity and diversity of Claes Oldenburg's early work to reveal this influential artist's extraordinary inventiveness. Accompanying an exhibition of Oldenburg's seminal early work, this publication examines the breadth of his artistic career from the late 1950s to 1970. It features works including the landmark installations The Street and The Store and their accompanying performances; the highly influential spectacular sculptures of everyday objects as well as drawings and preparatory collages for public projects from the 1960s. The book traces the development of Oldenburg's practice as it follows his work up to the Mouse Museum. Also included in the publication is an extensive chronology, alongside notes as well as a variety of installation views that showcase the careful consideration given to modes of presentation. In addition to imagery of his Pop icons, this richly illustrated book contains an extensive selection of drawings, collages, and magazine and newspaper clippings as well as a wealth of previously unpublished notebook pages, preparatory studies, and photographs taken by the artist. This volume probes diverse aspects of his work to offer fresh perspectives on Oldenburg's artistic development and unprecedented insights into the conceptual process of his artistic explorations.Gash through dust jacket on front cover.

Hardcover. New York, D.A.P./The National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 432 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Covered here are works by some 40 artists made in the period from circa 1916, when the Cabaret Voltaire was founded in Zurich, to 1926, by which time most of the Dada groups had dispersed or significantly transformed. The city sections bring together painting, sculpture, photography, collage, photomontage, prints and graphic work.Relying on dynamic design and vivid documentary images, Dada takes us through these six cities via topical essays and extensive plate sections; an illustrated chronology of the movement; witty chronicles of events in each city center; a selected bibliography; and biographies of each artist--accompanied by Dada-era photographs.

Hardcover. Stuttgard GR, Cantz, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 159 pages. Hardcover. Text in English and German. Illustrated with full color photographs. Exhibition catalog of Judd's work presented by the Stankowski Foundation. Slightest darkening to page edges. A clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. US, VH1 Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to boards.

Hardcover. Hatje Cantz, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 224 pages. Erwin Blumenfeld (1897-1969) was born into a Jewish family in Berlin. In 1941, after being interned in a concentration camp, he left Europe for the United States, where he eventually became a citizen; during the 40s and 50s, he was to make his name here as one of the most sought-after fashion photographers in the world. But most people are unfamiliar with Blumenfeld's early work, the often bitingly satiric Dada photomontages and collages he produced between 1916 and 1933. This book, put together by Helen Adkins, renowned expert on the Berlin Dada movement, is the first to provide a study and a survey of these early works. Blumenfeld did not intend for these works to be shown publicly, as they were primarily personal gifts to his friends and acquaintance, or were enclosed in love letters to his fiancee. Nonetheless, they were conceived in the Dada spirit (Blumenfeld established the Dutch branch of Dada in 1918) and belong to its story. Approximately 100 works--including many previously unpublished, which Adkins discovered in the artist's family archives and in other public and private collections--are examined within the context of Blumenfeld's life, photographs, drawings and literary works.

Hardcover. New York, Cowles Magazines Inc., 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages, hardcover. Red cloth stamped gilt, with a cutout front panel around the phrase "Annual 1953." Tastefully illustrated in color and b&w, with cutouts, fold outs, booklets, etc. By the editor of the short-lived Flair; one of the more visually inventive magazines ever conceived. Designed by and with many drawings by Federico Pallavicini. Fading and slight edgewear to boards, milld tear to front panel at cutout. Rubbing and slight staining to boards as well. Fading to text block edges. Slight cocking to spine. Unmarked. A tight copy. PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO SIZE & WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. London, Merrell Publishers, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 256 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. Illustrated with over 250 photographs and sketches. Future Beauty is the first comprehensive survey of Japanese avant-garde fashion of the last 30 years. Such designers as Issey Miyake, Yohji Yamamoto and Rei Kawakubo made an enormous impact on the world fashion scene in the late twentieth century, challenging established notions of beauty and turning fashion into art.

Softcover. New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 143 pages, 145 plates in b&w. Exhibition catalog, light sunning to bottom edge of front cover and spine. Otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, MIT Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 420 pages, illustrated with mostly b&w plates, 8 color pages. Small remainder stamp on bottom edge. "Tiege was at one and the same time both an agent provocateur and seismograph, at once provoking action and debate and yet simultaneously reacting with the utmost sensitivity to the shifting political spectrum of his time."--from the introduction by Kenneth FramptonKarel Teige (1900-1951), a leading figure of the avant-garde of the 1920s and 1930s, participated in every important argument and controversy of those turbulent years. He edited the most influential avant-garde journals on Czech and international cultural affairs and wrote profoundly original essays and books on the theory and criticism of art and architecture. He also produced paintings, collages, photomontages, film scripts, book covers, and typefaces and participated in theatrical performances.

Softcover. NY, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, profusely illustrated in both color and black and white. 300 pages. 4to, glossy pictorial wrappers. Extensive monograph of artist's life and work. Published to accompany the exhibition held in NY: Whitney Museum of American Art, February 29 to June 2, 1996; two additional venues. Two exhibition mailings laid in, one addressed to film director Bob Rafelson. Clean copy.